Liestrong FAIL
"Assuming you were able to prove these allegations, what federal law has been broken?" asks Daly,
I'll bet he'd like to know. But the feds aren't telling him until they've followed the money trail far enough that they themselves know what exactly it is they're unwrapping here.
Daly and his team seem to be laying the groundwork for a potential prosecutorial misconduct claim. And they're using words like "extortionate" and "shakedown" to characterize the indirect way Landis aired his accusations in the spring.
See quote number one above. It's kind of hard to lay the groundwork for prosecutorial misconduct when:
a) your client isn't currently facing charges
b) you have no idea what those might be or when they might come
As for the second sentence - maybe they think it's good for PR but at the end of the day what Landis himself said and how it came out likely won't count for guano. If (a big if IMO) anything the Feds try to prove in court is based largely on the Landis accusations, they'll bring sufficient corroborating testimony that Floyd as a witness is barely (if at all) necessary.
"Floyd Landis has disgraced himself with his admitted lies, and it is incredible that FDA agents are wasting taxpayer dollars in a fruitless attempt to bolster Landis' falsehoods," Fabiani told the Daily News. "The idea that Lance's team wanted to speak with Landis is simply the latest of Landis' Floyd-brications."
Same BS, different article. At least he didn't mention the eggs this time
As for his Floyd-session (sorry
), Floyd is a great public punching bag but his emails are neither the source nor the point of the investigation. Anyone with an Internet connection can easily find out that:
"...dozens of interviews by the AP with people involved in the case reveal a broad investigation that began with cyclists who had records of doping. It
then turned toward Armstrong..."
and that:
"People familiar with the investigation said Novitzky's probe into cycling began after he was notified about a cache of performance-enhancing drugs that a landlord found in the vacated apartment of Kayle Leogrande, a little-known cyclist with a doping ban who rode for Rock Racing.
Then, Floyd Landis created a stir in April when he sent e-mails to cycling officials that accused ex-teammate Armstrong, along with his longtime doctor and trainer, and numerous other U.S. cyclists, of running an organized doping program earlier this decade."
(AP article picked up by
Forbes Magazine)
EDIT: Anyone reading the Daily News article from the 29th could just
click this link on the page and read all about the investigation into Rock and Ball long before Landis went public.
And for shiyte's sake, anyone with half a brain knows that investigators don't bolster an accuser's accusations - they investigate. If they uncover sufficient
reliable evidence, they hand it over to prosecutors, who prosecute. The more this guy says, the stupider he shows himself to be.
Finally, the main thing I take away from all this spew is increasing respect for Novitsky. He's plugging away, apparently following the money, keeping his cards close to his chest, and most importantly STFU-ing very nicely. People on the various forums (um, self, anyone?) get up in arms and point out how the point is missed, context ignored, truth twisted, etc every time someone from the good ship Liestrong opens his mouth, but not Dirk. He's investigating this thing knowing it may well end up in a courtroom and sensibly ignoring Liestrong as they keep spewing whatever they feel like. When the real drama finally begins, they'll only look stupider for having spent so much energy focusing on the pieces that barely matter.
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